Answers to the quiz @ QFI Chennai

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1. Played under 2 religious affliations
   
2. Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi
   
3. Barabati
   
4. Arbab Niaz Stadium
   
5. When Ram Singh first came to Chennai he found it difficult to find a house bcos the owners asked him about his ancestors and his origins. So Ram singh told them that his ancestor was Guru Gobind and he came from Amirtsar. Hence A G
   
6. Chennai 600028
7. Montevideo
8. Tirupati Brahmotsavam
9. Lagaan
10. Mogadishu
11. Rubiks cube
12. Garuda
13. Mushtaq Mohammed
14. Arjun Singh
15. Kanappar
16. They allowed cattle to graze on it
17. Sikkal and since he got back his old beautiful form(beauty = Singara in Tamil) he became Singaravelar
18. Jallianwallabagh
19. Used to measure baldness
20. They created an option that had the characteristics of both and then looked into the map and found Bermuda in between Americ and Europe and hence called it so
21. Berlin Zoo after Knut the polar bear burst into fame
22. Day of the Jackal technique
23. Janavasam
24. Awards = Viridhu and hence Virudhunagar
25. Pran
26. Tetris
27. The fox terrier had a straight tail which looked like an antenna(See the pic on top)
28. Vanni tree and hence Thiruvanmiyur
29. Indian thoughtless
30. Frequency Analysis
31. Kala Paani
32. Napoleon
33. Klu Klux Klan
34. Bartitsu
35. Royal society of Chemistry
36. Bees saal baad
37. W. G. Grace
38. The answers in Red form a theme Can you try identifying it

Quiz conducted @ QFI- Chennai

1.  What unique achievement connects A.G. Kripal Singh and Mohamammad Yousuf ? (Not related to anything they did on the field!)
   
2. Shaharyar Khan, the erstwhile chairman of the PCB was at one time a foreign secretary. His cousin however continues to stay in India. Who is his famous cousin?
   
3. This cricket ground’s name stands for “twelve entrances” in the local dialect. It is in fact part of a fort & ASI excavations have revealed a moat around it. Identify the stadium?
   
4. This ground in Pakistan is named after a minister in General Zia’s government who collected funds for building the stadium. The ground is a mini colony and houses all the staff inside it’s own premises. Identify the stadium
   
5. A.G. Ram Singh when he came to Chennai didn’t have any initials. What is the story behind the initials A.G?
   
6. This Tamil movie has a tagline which is the same as the starting lines of a famous song from the movie “Pudhupetai”. Identify the movie?
   
7. This city is supposed to get its name from the Spaniards who recorded the location of a fountain on the map at this place. It meant the “sixth mountain from east to west”. The city’s full original name is San Felipe y Santiago de ________.
   
8. Lord Indra once killed a Brahma-raakshasa (a Brahmin with demonic characters). In doing so, he incurred a great sin of killing a Brahmana- "Brahma hatya dosham(BHD)". To relieve Indra of this burden, Lord Brahma conducted a ceremony. In this ceremony, officiated by Brahma himself, Indra held Sriman Narayana (Lord Vishnu) on his head during the special ritual bath "Avabritha Snaanam". What was this the first instance of?
   
9. Sony during the 2003 world cup ran two advertising campaigns. It ran thus “Jan 26 India vs England” .Feb 26th India vs England. The second one was the telecast of the India vs England world cup match. What was the first ad referring to?
   
10. This city’s name is supposed to be the African version of the Arabic name “maqad shah” or “the imperial seat of the shah” thus hunting at a Persian role in the city’s founding. Others consider it a mispronunciation of the Swahili "mwyu wa". (Last northern city), raising the possibility of its being the northernmost of the chain of Swahili city-states on the East African coast. Identify?
    
11. Possible names for this were “Guardian knot” and “Inca Gold” but finally the inventor’s name was itself used to name this toy. Which toy?
    
12. This mythological character’s various names include chitrada, gaganeshvara, kamayusha, Kashyapi, Khagesvara, Nagantaka, Sitanana, Suparna, Tarkshya among others. What is his most famous name?
    
13. The 20 -20 trophy in India is named after which former cricketer?
    
14. Jamia Millia Islamia recently named one of its building and roads after whom, which evoked a lot of criticism from the media?
    
15. Arjuna while meditating on Lord Shiva in the forest for getting the Pashupata astra failed to recognize the Lord when he appeared in the form of a hunter. He was cursed to be born as a hunter in his next birth and worship the god before attaining mukti. Who was he reborn as?
    
16. Lords got its first mowing machine and appointed a grounndsman in 1864. How were the pitches maintained before the invention of the mowing machine?
    
17. Surapadhman was a Brahmin and hence when Lord Muruga killed him in battle the sin of Brahma hatti affected him and he lost his original complexion and became pitch black. He went to a certain place near Tanjore and bathed in a tank made out of the milk of Kamadhenu and regained his form. Where did he atone for his sin and what name did he get because of this?
    
18. A G Ram Singh began his career playing cricket in Punjab before his father migrated to Chennai. At which place of historical significance did he start playing cricket before migrating to Chennai?
    
19. The Norwood-Hamilton scale is used to measure what?
    
20. There are widely three types of options that are traded in the financial world, namely American, European and Bermuda. American options can be exercised at the choice of the option holder while an European one can be exercised only on maturity. A Bermuda option can be exercised on certain pre specified dates. Why is it called a Bermuda option in the first place?
    
21. This organization’s stock price more than doubled in April 2007 at the Berlin stock exchange after a trade mark registration. Identify the organization and the trademark which it registered?
    
22. Albert Stopford III calling himself the Earl of Buckingham was exposed as a fraudster in Nov 2005. The last Earl of Buckingham had died in 1687 and the title had become extinct after his death. His fraud was exposed when he was stopped for a routine check when trying to cross back to UK from Switzerland. Stopford had used the identity of a baby that had died in 1963 and would roughly have been of his age. What did the UK press dub this technique as?
    
23. According to the Vedas, once upanayanam is over for a Brahmin boy, he becomes a Brahma charin or one who walks in the way of Brhama.It was a time for him to learn Vedas and other necessary knowledge. It was customary during those times that he used to wear one white short cloth up to the knee, never shave or have a hair cut, never wear a garland or scents, never wear sandal paste and in fact lead a saintly life. Which practice in Hindu marriages is a result of this; it is in fact a literal translation of a cloth worn only up to the knee?
    
24. According to local legend round 400 years ago, a warrior, who was in possession of a number of awards in token of having conquered many others, challenged the residents of this town.  A resident accepted the challenge and in the ensuing fight, killed the warrior and seized the awards. Which place in Tamilnadu gets its name from this legend?
    
25. Maurice Horn the editor of world encyclopedia of comics describes him as the “Walt Disney of India”. He is a M.A in political science and has a degree in fine arts from J J School of arts Mumbai. He started his career with a Delhi based newspaper Milap. Identify?
    
26. In first-time users, __________ significantly raises cerebral glucose metabolic rates (GMRs), meaning brain energy consumption soars. Yet, after four to eight weeks of daily doses, GMRs sink to normal, while performance increases seven-fold, on average. __________ trains your brain to stop using inefficient gray matter, perhaps a key cognitive strategy for learning. In fact, the lowest final GMRs are found in the best players' brains, the ones most efficient at dealing with __________'s Daedalian geometry. Fill in the blanks.
    
27. For the famous Hutch ad a fox terrier was initially chosen instead of a pug, but on the day of the shooting the fox terrier died and the producers had to substitute it with a pug at the last minute. Why was a fox terrier chosen in the first place?
    
28. The great Valmiki who composed the Ramayana was counseled by Sage Markandeya while listening to the devotional verses of the Ramayana that Siva worship and the darsan of Lord Siva are necessary to attain moksha. Sage Markandeya bade Valmiki go round the world and advised him that the place where he heard a voice saying 'I am here' was the most fitting one to offer worship to Lord Siva Accordingly Valmiki started Pradakshina and when he came to the west of River Palar along the seacoast of the Bay of Bengal, a voice from above cried out, "I am here". Valmiki stayed on there and offered worship to Lord Siva. Lord Siva was pleased with the worship of Valmiki and gave him darsan on the 'sacred bull by the side of the Vanni tree. Which place in Chennai gets its name from this incident?
    
29. R.K.Narayan’s own publishing house is called “Indian thought”. He had however thought of naming it as something else but then decided to stick with “Indian thought” since it would anyway mean the same. What was the original name he had thought of?
    
30. This method of cryptographic analysis is used to break classical ciphers. This was in fact used by the axis powers to break several of the codes during World War II. The method is based on the fact that, in any given stretch of written language certain letters and combination of letters occur more often than others. What is this method of analysis known as?
31. Veer Savarkar wrote a book on the treatment meted out to the Indian prisoners in the cellular jails of Andamans. What was the name of this book?
32. A tower can be found a few kilometres southeast from Orttanadu, on a deserted stretch of coastline on the Bay of Bengal. It is 65 kilometres from Thanjavur and 135 km from Pattukkottai, and is situated at Sarabendra Rajanpattinam. What was the reason for building the tower ie what event did it commemorate?
33. Throughout its varied history this organization has coined many words beginning with KL. Some of these include Klabee(treasurer), Kloran(the holy book),Klecktoken(initiation fee) etc. Identify the organization
34. This martial art was created by Edward William Barton Wright a British engineer who had been building railways in Japan. He claimed that it incorporated the best of all martial arts. The name he gave was a portmanteau of his own name and the word Jiujitsu. What was the martial art invented by the above gentleman?
35. The website of the organization whose coat of arms is shown is www.rsc.org. Identify the organization?
36. This movie directed by Biren Nag in the year 1962 is a cult horror classic. It starred Wahed Rahman and Biswajeet. It also featured the big hit “Kahin Deep jale kahin dil” sung by Lata Mangeshkar. Identify the movie?
37. The first Australian team to visit England comprised entirely of Aborgines. They had weird sounding names which the English press couldn’t pronounce and hence used names like Bullocky, Dick a Dick, Redcap etc. The aborigines were great athletes and indulged in pastimes after the match. One such pastime was ball throwing competition. The Aborgines threw farthest but they were beaten by a young Englishman who had just then turned 20.Identify the Englishman?
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